Sarcopenic obesity predicts instrumental activities of daily living disability in the elderly.

By R. Baumgartner, S. Wayne, D. Waters, Ian Janssen, Dympna Gallagher, J. Morley. Obesity Research, 2004

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Ten-Year Effects of the ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults (2014, background): “This is probably because many factors beyond cognition affect daily function and functional independence, including sex, social class, mood, sarcopenia, obesity, chronic diseases, and social isolation.(40,41) Even within the cognitive realm, some domains such as general cognitive status and executiv”
Sarcopenia: Its assessment, etiology, pathogenesis, consequences and future perspectives (2008, background): “6 higher risk to develop disability (46).”
Nutritional Recommendations for the Management of Sarcopenia (2010, neutral): “Obese sarcopenic persons appear to have even worse outcomes.(20,21) Separate nutritional guidelines for cachexia have been developed.”
Welcome to the ICD‐10 code for sarcopenia (2016, background): “than non-obese persons with sarcopenia and obese persons with intact muscle mass.(5) This condition has subsequently been termed sarcopenic obesity.”
Sarcopenia: an undiagnosed condition in older adults. Current consensus definition: prevalence, etiology, and consequences. International working group on sarcopenia. (2011, background): “(83), found that “obese sarcopenia” was a better predictor of physical disabilities, abnormalities in gait or balance and falls in the past year than either sarcopenia or obesity alone.”